Archive for the ‘New ideas’ Category
Sharing data issues for ecology and evolution
Posted by: chrislortie on May 12, 2014
Novelty in reviews by Göran Arnqvist: Dr. Pangloss was, I fear, wrong.
Posted by: cjlortie on November 29, 2013
Chasing the white rabbit: novelty as a filter for editors
Posted by: cjlortie on November 23, 2013
Synthesis in ecology
Posted by: chrislortie on July 3, 2013
Data samples & data abstracts alongside Oikos papers
Posted by: cjlortie on August 11, 2012
Evolution 2012: facilitated networking
Posted by: Jeremy Fox on July 3, 2012
Upcoming group blog on Open Data
Posted by: Jeremy Fox on June 25, 2012
Yet more on the inclusive fitness – kin selection – group selection kerfuffle
Posted by: Jeremy Fox on June 25, 2012
Darwin’s Origin of Species: notes for your reading group (UPDATED)
Posted by: Jeremy Fox on June 21, 2012
Rapid evolution of evolutionary biology (and ecology): what’s changed since 2005
Posted by: Jeremy Fox on June 20, 2012
Take-home messages vs. the devil in the details
Posted by: Jeremy Fox on June 15, 2012
Great minds think alike (when they’re trying to fix peer review)
Posted by: Jeremy Fox on June 14, 2012
Intuition, education, and zombie ideas (UPDATED)
Posted by: Jeremy Fox on June 13, 2012
Ecology is mostly not like billiards (but lots of people think it is) (UPDATEDx3)
Posted by: Jeremy Fox on June 8, 2012
From the archives: why ‘small, fast’ community ecology matters even on ‘big, slow’ spatial and temporal scales
Posted by: Jeremy Fox on June 8, 2012
Is macroecology like astronomy?
Posted by: Jeremy Fox on June 7, 2012
Garbage in, garbage out: what if your Big Dataset is lousy data? (UPDATED)
Posted by: Jeremy Fox on June 6, 2012
Techniques aren’t powerful; scientists are
Posted by: Jeremy Fox on June 1, 2012
Simplifying a complex, overdetermined world
Posted by: Jeremy Fox on May 31, 2012
What makes for productive scientific debates?
Posted by: Jeremy Fox on May 23, 2012
On confusing specific examples and general principles
Posted by: Jeremy Fox on May 22, 2012
Must-read: on ordinary language vs. scientific understanding
Posted by: Jeremy Fox on May 17, 2012
Maybe we need even more stability concepts!
Posted by: Jeremy Fox on May 16, 2012
From the archives: bandwagons in ecology
Posted by: Jeremy Fox on May 15, 2012
An important but little known fact about compensatory dynamics
Posted by: Jeremy Fox on May 13, 2012
On the use and care of mathematical models
Posted by: Jeremy Fox on May 10, 2012
Crowdfunding science: the future?
Posted by: Jeremy Fox on May 2, 2012
Is ecology becoming too collaborative?
Posted by: Jeremy Fox on April 27, 2012
Is ‘synthesis ecology’ a distinct scientific discipline?
Posted by: Jeremy Fox on April 20, 2012
A key problem in interpreting observational data (UPDATEDx2)
Posted by: Jeremy Fox on April 18, 2012
Yes, IDH zombies are still worth worrying about (UPDATED)
Posted by: Jeremy Fox on April 16, 2012
Why shoot yourself in the foot?
Posted by: aycotack on April 16, 2012
From the archives: defending microcosm experiments
Posted by: Jeremy Fox on April 16, 2012
Everything you ever wanted to know about the Price equation
Posted by: Jeremy Fox on April 12, 2012
The paradigm of ‘paradigm shifts’ turns 50
Posted by: Jeremy Fox on April 12, 2012
Zombie ideas about disturbance: a dialogue (UPDATED)
Posted by: Jeremy Fox on April 10, 2012
Succeeding in academia: being good vs. being lucky
Posted by: Jeremy Fox on April 9, 2012
On science for science’s sake
Posted by: Jeremy Fox on April 5, 2012
From the archives: are some general ecological concepts TOO general?
Posted by: Jeremy Fox on March 30, 2012
Is the time right for NCEAS 2.0?
Posted by: Jeremy Fox on March 23, 2012
Trying to save a zombie idea (UPDATED)
Posted by: Jeremy Fox on March 22, 2012
Models of journal management
Posted by: cjlortie on March 19, 2012
Steve Jobs on the value of fundamental research
Posted by: Jeremy Fox on March 19, 2012
Cover letter power and job interviews
Posted by: cjlortie on March 18, 2012
The importance of society journals, affordable open access, and fast turnaround times.
Posted by: cjlortie on March 16, 2012
Why do fundamental research in a world with pressing applied problems? (UPDATED)
Posted by: Jeremy Fox on March 16, 2012
Ecologist interview: Colin Kremer
Posted by: Jeremy Fox on March 14, 2012
Why do experiments? (UPDATEDx2)
Posted by: Jeremy Fox on March 13, 2012
Why do mathematical modeling?
Posted by: Jeremy Fox on March 13, 2012
From the archives: Are there inherently complex ecological phenomena?
Posted by: Jeremy Fox on March 3, 2012
“Blind tastings” for scientific papers?
Posted by: Jeremy Fox on March 2, 2012
From the archives: all the reasons why coexisting species should be similar rather than different
Posted by: Jeremy Fox on March 1, 2012
More on changing your mind in science
Posted by: Jeremy Fox on February 26, 2012
Instrumental variables: the key to analyzing “natural experiments”?
Posted by: Jeremy Fox on February 22, 2012
What does R-squared mean?
Posted by: Jeremy Fox on February 16, 2012
Must-read paper: how to make ANY statistical test come out “significant”
Posted by: Jeremy Fox on February 16, 2012
Should supervisors let student authors make mistakes? And should reviewers care?
Posted by: Jeremy Fox on February 16, 2012
Drilling down vs. scaling up
Posted by: Jeremy Fox on February 7, 2012
How international trade almost wiped out the North American bison
Posted by: Jeremy Fox on February 3, 2012
Getting over Robert MacArthur (UPDATEDx3)
Posted by: Jeremy Fox on January 31, 2012
Statisticians, meet ecologists
Posted by: Jeremy Fox on January 30, 2012
Crowdsourcing papers on species’ traits as predictors of their abundances
Posted by: Jeremy Fox on January 27, 2012
Another legacy of NCEAS: devalued introverts?
Posted by: Jeremy Fox on January 26, 2012
Zombie ideas in ecology: “neutral” = “dispersal limitation”
Posted by: Jeremy Fox on January 24, 2012
Zombie ideas in ecology: “neutral” = “stochastic”
Posted by: Jeremy Fox on January 23, 2012
Another peer review reform: Peerage of Science (UPDATED)
Posted by: Jeremy Fox on January 23, 2012
What if science journals “bid” on manuscripts?
Posted by: Jeremy Fox on January 22, 2012
The scientific impact of a nation of beavers
Posted by: Jeremy Fox on January 14, 2012
Are even the best lectures bad?
Posted by: Jeremy Fox on January 7, 2012
Poll: new ideas for the Oikos Blog (and the journal) (UPDATED)
Posted by: Jeremy Fox on January 4, 2012
Why are some ecological ideas controversial?
Posted by: Jeremy Fox on January 1, 2012
Why (un)teaching ecology is hard
Posted by: Jeremy Fox on December 28, 2011
Neutral drift: this means War!
Posted by: Jeremy Fox on December 20, 2011
Cool new method for detecting associations between variables in large datasets (UPDATEDx2)
Posted by: Jeremy Fox on December 16, 2011
On getting scooped in ecology
Posted by: Jeremy Fox on December 7, 2011
Advice: how to do meta-analysis in ecology vs. medicine
Posted by: Jeremy Fox on December 7, 2011
Species pools and the fallacy of composition (UPDATED)
Posted by: Jeremy Fox on November 22, 2011
Free idea for a provocative review paper: comparing ‘selection’ in evolution vs. ecology
Posted by: Jeremy Fox on November 15, 2011
Is Hutchinson’s zombie idea about coexistence not a zombie after all?! (UPDATED)
Posted by: Jeremy Fox on November 11, 2011
Must reads: theoreticians explain themselves to empiricists
Posted by: Jeremy Fox on November 10, 2011
A blog about scientific blogging
Posted by: Jeremy Fox on November 8, 2011
On rhetoric in scientific writing
Posted by: Jeremy Fox on November 8, 2011
Where are the wholehearted defenders of the IDH zombies?
Posted by: Jeremy Fox on November 3, 2011
Carnival of Evolution #41 now up
Posted by: Jeremy Fox on November 1, 2011
Zombie ideas in ecology: the unimodal diversity-productivity relationship
Posted by: Jeremy Fox on October 21, 2011
Thoughts on NutNet
Posted by: Jeremy Fox on October 20, 2011
More resources on Bayesian vs. frequentist statistics
Posted by: Jeremy Fox on October 14, 2011
Frequentist vs. Bayesian statistics: resources to help you choose (UPDATED)
Posted by: Jeremy Fox on October 11, 2011
More reasons (and various ways) to fund people, not projects
Posted by: Jeremy Fox on September 28, 2011
Why I don’t care what the biggest question in ecology is
Posted by: Jeremy Fox on September 27, 2011
Questions about “Big Data” in ecology
Posted by: Jeremy Fox on September 17, 2011
Advice: weak studies of short-term dynamics
Posted by: Jeremy Fox on September 16, 2011
Bandwagons in ecology
Posted by: Jeremy Fox on September 14, 2011
Yes, the IDH is a zombie: response to Karl Cottenie
Posted by: Jeremy Fox on September 12, 2011
Another legacy of NCEAS: overly-nice ecologists?
Posted by: Jeremy Fox on September 7, 2011
Inductive vs. deductive research
Posted by: Jeremy Fox on September 2, 2011
Why “The Spandrels of San Marco” isn’t a good paper
Posted by: Jeremy Fox on August 26, 2011
The ESA meeting should have Science Cafes
Posted by: Jeremy Fox on August 12, 2011
The ESA meeting should have public lectures (UPDATED)
Posted by: Jeremy Fox on August 11, 2011
More on bridging divides in ecology
Posted by: Jeremy Fox on July 26, 2011
An empirical divide in ecology?
Posted by: Jeremy Fox on July 26, 2011
Free idea for an Oikos Forum paper: untapped potential in biological market models
Posted by: Jeremy Fox on July 25, 2011
Should we classify mechanisms by their causes or their effects?
Posted by: Jeremy Fox on July 18, 2011
Non-zombie ideas in ecology: Gause’s The Struggle for Existence
Posted by: Jeremy Fox on July 9, 2011
Zombie ideas in ecology: r and K selection
Posted by: Jeremy Fox on June 29, 2011
37 ways choice of words can mislead scientists
Posted by: Jeremy Fox on June 28, 2011
Evidence that granting agencies should fund people, not projects
Posted by: Jeremy Fox on June 28, 2011
Free idea for a provocative review paper
Posted by: Jeremy Fox on June 24, 2011
Why do theoreticians and empiricists often talk past one another?
Posted by: Jeremy Fox on June 23, 2011
What publications have most influenced you as an ecologist?
Posted by: Jeremy Fox on June 21, 2011
Zombie ideas in ecology
Posted by: Jeremy Fox on June 17, 2011
Objections to microcosms in ecology, and their answers
Posted by: Jeremy Fox on June 10, 2011
My first publication: revisiting an Oikos non-classic
Posted by: Jeremy Fox on June 7, 2011
Why ecologists should refight the ‘null model wars’ (UPDATED)
Posted by: Jeremy Fox on June 1, 2011
Novel perspectives on MaxEnt (UPDATEDx2)
Posted by: Jeremy Fox on May 27, 2011
Ignorance is bliss (sometimes)
Posted by: Jeremy Fox on May 24, 2011
When should species’ traits predict species’ abundances?
Posted by: Jeremy Fox on May 19, 2011
An ecological anthropic principle?
Posted by: Jeremy Fox on May 17, 2011
Should granting agencies fund projects or people?
Posted by: Jeremy Fox on May 16, 2011
Are some general ecological concepts TOO general?: revisiting an Oikos classic
Posted by: Jeremy Fox on May 12, 2011
A visual metaphor for the Price Equation (UPDATED)
Posted by: Jeremy Fox on May 10, 2011
Why macroecology needs ‘microecology’: revisiting an Oikos classic
Posted by: Jeremy Fox on May 3, 2011
Why doesn’t community ecology erase the signal of historical biogeography? (UPDATED)
Posted by: Jeremy Fox on May 2, 2011
‘Beauty’ is not (necessarily) truth
Posted by: Jeremy Fox on April 28, 2011
Are there inherently complex ecological phenomena?
Posted by: Jeremy Fox on April 28, 2011
Why expect trade-offs in ecology and evolution? (UPDATED)
Posted by: Jeremy Fox on April 27, 2011
The art of hand waving
Posted by: Jeremy Fox on April 26, 2011
Contrarian ecology and why we need it
Posted by: Jeremy Fox on April 26, 2011
An Oikos editor, and a former editor, are fixing the peer review system
Posted by: Jeremy Fox on April 22, 2011
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